I do not own Battlestar Galactica
Warning descriptions of sexual assault
Part of the conversation between D'Anna Biers and Seth was inspired by one from Michael Weyer's story The Journey's Trek between Spock and D'Anna
Chronus1326 – Scylla and her fleet in this universe got away because they were warned by an officer on Pegasus who was executed after that. Unfortunately Pegasus discovered a number of other civilian ships after that which they did manage to strip
Chapter 23 – The Trial of Helena Cain
In her new cell on-board the Rycon, D'Anna Biers sat at a table chained down with the freshly promoted Commodore Trakiss across from her. It had been decided to keep her separate from the other Cylon prisoners so they could not influence her or she in turn have influenced them. Seth was looking through the dossier they had gathered on her and paid her little attention. The marine in the corner was doing it for him in case D'Anna decided to attack him.
D'Anna did no such thing, she bristled at him ignoring her knowing that the only reason she would be here like this was if her cover had been blown. She wondered for a moment if the buckets of water were waiting outside so they could subject her to water boarding or perhaps electrodes to attach to her body, after all that was how they had captured her which a Taser maybe that was their policy. She hoped that they give the opportunity to commit suicide or at least get them to kill her so that she could return to her own people. The young Commodore suddenly looked up for his dossier and straight into her eyes, she hoped to see some fear or at least anger that she could twist but there was just an icy calm stare
'Crunch time' she thought
"Miss Biers I understand that you are a model Three Cylon, you have been posing as a human reporter for a period of at least eight years since the earliest record of you we have goes back that far?" Seth asked her calmly and she said
"Yes eight years and no-one even realised I was there" she said smugly creating a mask of superiority she hoped would rile him but that damned calm demeanour persisted and he just asked
"I have a few questions to ask you though. Why did your people after four decades of peace resume armed conflict with humanity? After all we sent a colonial officer to Armistice Station every year to try and open a diplomatic dialogue with your people"
D'Anna shook her head "Your ships violated the Armistice line two years ago, the Battlestar Valkyrie crossed over and launched a stealth ship into our territory"
Seth was surprised at that "I will be questioning Admiral Adama about that later but I'm afraid that excuse won't fly Miss Biers, as I said earlier we know now that Cylon agents have been working towards the destruction of the Colonies for at least eight years if your own presence is any indication so I will asked you again. Why did your people after four decades of peace resume armed conflict with humanity?"
D'Anna then gained confidence in her eyes and her stance "Because we were chosen"
Seth raised his eyebrow "By whom?"
"By the One God to wipe away his flawed creations and prove ourselves worthy of his love" D'Anna said fanatically and Seth chuckled slightly shaking his head in apparent disbelief. This enraged D'Anna who said angrily "You dare mock me?"
Seth stopped shaking his head and said with a bemused smile "I'm just remarking how like us you have become"
D'Anna froze in anger before going to leap at Seth but the chains stopped her and she contented herself with yelling "We are nothing like you! We hate humans. God gave us our souls and we will prove ourselves to him by destroying you"
Seth suddenly became serious and looked her straight in the eyes and told her in a cold and firm voice that was as untouched by emotion as artic ice "You have declared a war of extermination on another race for the sake of a god that you have never seen nor spoken too. The Colonials once waged wars against their own people for much the same reason. That sounds like a very human action to me Miss Biers"
D'Anna's anger suddenly evaporated as his words sank in and Seth continued
"Let me make this clear to you Miss Biers. You have been captured spying on us for the Cylons that usually carries the death penalty after a very lengthy and brutal interrogation process. You are a beautiful woman and I have no doubt that there are some men out there that would love to add sexual assault to the repertoire of tortures they could inflict on you"
D'Anna's breath stopped in her throat as the horrible possibilities of what could happen to her started to play like one of her documentaries through her mind. Being forced onto her hands and knees or on her back as human men forced themselves on her, the pain and violation of the imagined images was enough to make D'Anna sliver and the shock from his other words were still bouncing around her mind, but then Trakiss told her
"However as a prisoner of war you will be protected from such actions, I do not believe in such practices and feel them vile. You will be secured in this cell for the immediate future and provided with meals that will be withdrawn for misbehaviour. Co-operation with us we gain you privileges such as books or other such entertainments but now I will leave you to contemplate my words" Seth told her before getting up to leave and then turning around to impart one last statement to her "Miss Biers we regardless of what you may think of us we are not animals and perhaps God has his own plans that we as imperfect beings cannot comprehend think on that" before leaving a very confused and disturbed D'Anna in her new cell.
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Sheba sat in her quarters in the low lighting as she tried to work out the issues that had arisen. Her mother was here alive and now locked up facing charges that could get her the death penalty.
Sheba was very ambivalent; one side of her was glad that the nasty bitch was going to get what she deserved, the sights that she had seen on the stripped vessels quite vivid in her mind. But on the other hand, she was her mother and she wanted to see her but couldn't quite bring herself to do it
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Captain Serina Boxman sat in the small marine troopship with her small teams of civilian investigators and an escorting company of marines for protection in case the Pegasus crew decided to try something. They were preparing to board Pegasus to begin their investigation into the ship's conduct. This was outside her normal duties as CAG but with Sheba being a relation to Cain she had been excused from the task.
The pilot announced to them that they were about to land so Serina turned to her group and told them "Now let me remind you that this is to be considered a hostile environment go nowhere without an escort and take nothing at face value. Log any evidence you take and record any conversations you have with the crew, understood?" she asked and they all nodded as the buckled in for the landing.
The troopship arrived in Pegasus's port landing bay and was soon lowered into the pressured bay. The marines went first, opening the hatch and took point, then Serina and the civilians followed, all around them the flight crew kept giving them dirty looks. A timid looking lieutenant was there to greet them he said after saluting Serina
"Welcome to Pegasus Captain, I'm Lieutenant Hoshi. Colonel Fisk has assigned me to be your guide while you're on-board"
Serina frowned, the layout of this ship was nearly exactly the same as Telmaya and she suspected that the lieutenant was supposed to make saw they avoided certain areas. So she told him
"We have orders from Admiral Adama to search this ship for evidence concerning your actions since the fall of the colonies" she told him showing the order to him "We will start with Admiral Cain's office and her quarters and I will tolerate no interference is that clear?" she said sternly making Hoshi nod
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The team removed Cain's logbooks and copies of the reports that she had kept from her underlings. The quarters had been very Spartan and the office the display of weapons aside was quite bland as well. Serina made a note of everything they had taken before moving on to the interviews as half the group preceded to the computer records room. They were passing the brig when they saw a 'Do not disturb' sign on the door and Serina turned to Hoshi demanding "What is going on in there?"
Hoshi looked very nervous and guilty unable to speak so Serina pressed the door release and what she saw inside she would haunt her for the rest of her days.
Inside the cell that was identical to those on her own ship there stood a man in a lieutenant's uniform with his pants down, holding a woman prisoner down on the floor as he penetrated her from behind with care to make it as painful as possible for her. Three marines in the room stood there laughing as she just took it without reaction, showing that this must be a regular event to have desensitized her so much. Serina just stood frozen as did her group behind her, the men in the room hadn't even noticed her presence but she drew her service weapon and shouted out
"BREAK THIS UP THIS INSTANT" quickly drawing their attention and the lieutenant who had been raping the woman prisoner suddenly got to his feet pulling his pants back on saying in a slimy voice that made Serina's blood chill
"Just interrogating the prisoner sir" but Serina was having none of it and demanded
"Name, rank, serial number"
The man said back "Thorne, Alastair. Rank; Lieutenant, serial number 873827"
Serina decided to take this man with them, so she told him a little lie to make him come willingly "Lieutenant to reassure this crew that Admiral Cain is unharmed you will be accompanying to see her in person, the prisoner will also join us so our own people can interrogate her" she now recognised the prisoner as a Cylon model Six, just like Selena. Serina was disgusted at what she had just witnessed and wanted to get this woman as far away from Pegasus as she could to get her some proper care, so she came up with a convincing lie till they were away from the ship.
"Yes sir" Thorne said surprised and making sure to kick the prisoner on the way out Serina gritted her teeth and had two of her own marines take the bond Cylon to the troopship. She turned to Hoshi and asked him in a voice that carried as much warmth as the artic wind
"Where is Lieutenant Thorne's rack?"
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After doing a quick search and pulling several recordings that the bastard had kept of their previous 'interrogations' they proceeded to store their evidence on the troop ship under guard. She then started the interviews. Whatever decency that the crew had had before it was clearly now gone, most of them she could gather believed that the sun shined out of Cain and were angry at her arrest. Some people like Cain's aide a Lieutenant Stephanie Roberts believed everything they had done was justified even the killing and slaughter of civilians to prolong their war effort. Some of those conscripted civilians however were only glad to give their own accounts of what had happened once out of ear shot of the crew.
When they had finally finished on Pegasus, the group boarded their troopship with the Cylon they now knew was called Gina and Lieutenant Thorne. They waited till they had taken off heading for Galactica when Serina had binders placed on Thorne's hands after punching the man out. Gina looked up surprised, showing the first signs of life since they had met her and Serina just told her with a warm smile
"It's over now Gina, we won't hurt you, and you're safe with us"
Gina couldn't believe that statement, they were colonials and all colonials were alike horrible disgusting creatures but deep down inside her for the first time in a long time a nearly forgotten feeling began to cast warmth over her abused soul
Hope
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After the evidence was stowed safely on Galactica where Seth could take the time to analyse it, Thorne was placed in the brig on charges of assault and violating the conventions of the treatment of prisoners. Thankfully when Selena had begun to help them earlier on, the Assembly had deemed organic Cylons as living beings worthy of protection under the law at Seth's request to gain Selena's confidence. Gina herself was taken to Galactica's infirmary where she was sedated while Doctor Cottle began documenting her wounds as evidence before starting to treat her.
After that she as her group boarded the troopship again and continued their investigations this time on the Battlestar Artemis.
This time when they boarded the new Battlestar they were welcomed with open arms, the crew were ecstatic to see more colonials and were only too happy to help them, when Serina learned why they were so willing she added another important point in her report. She met with the commanding officer of the ship a stressed looking seventy years old Major Karl Zanuck. He added his own story to the growing mountain of evidence.
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An hour later now on-board Telmaya, Serina made her report on Pegasus and Artemis to Seth and Adama; she kept her voice calm and emotionless
"The Pegasus was able to survive the fall of the Colonies because their computer systems were down for a retrofit so they were able to use their manual overrides to get the ship away with a blind jump. They eventually learned about the colonies and Cain decided with no other sign of survivors to launch a guerrilla campaign against the Cylons. Their first attack was on a supposed Comm relay which turned out to be a Cylon staging area. Despite a Cylon infiltrator, a model six called Gina sabotaging their defences and being outnumbered four to one, Cain ordered them to go in anyway. Her first officer Colonel Belzan objected and she proceeded to shot him in the head. Then she had Fisk order the attack anyway. After that she had Lieutenant Thorne begin torturing and raping the Cylon Gina to try and get Intel but they never managed to get anything from her. Following this they encountered the Scylla fleet but a Lieutenant Donald Sweet warned them and they jumped away for which he was executed. They continued their strikes against the Cylons and any other civilian vessels they found were stripped of useful parts or personnel" Serina took a moment to steady her breathing before continuing
"Then they encountered the Artemis which was hiding inside a nebula cloud with two civilian haulers. When Commander Frank Callahan refused to join Cain's quest and strip the haulers, she had him killed along with his XO and most of his command staff leaving the inexperienced crew leaderless, with no experienced officers and terrified of her. She then had the haulers stripped and replaced Callahan with the retired seventy year old Major Karl Zanuck who she had press ganged from a civilian ship. Zanuck managed to save some of the civilians including his own grandchildren but the man has a heart condition with leaves him vulnerable to high stress levels so commanding a ship is slowly driving him to the grave"
Adama felt a major headache coming on "My gods she's insane. This is worse than we ever thought"
Seth felt the same and slipped him own drink before telling Serina "Okay grab some rack time, you earned it" and she nodded before leaving a paper copy of her report for them to read, leaving the men with a lot of decisions to make
"I'll assign an officer to Artemis to take some of the strain off of Zanuck, till we can find someone capable of running the ship" Adama told his second in command who nodded. With a combined crew of 3500 the two new ships had increased the population of the fleet to 86,265
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The court martial was convened the two days later in the morning once Seth and Cain had managed to go over all the evidence that his CAG had gathered and prepare their arguments. The court was made in a room on Galactica.
The three presiding officers, Admiral Adama, Colonel Colchester and Colonel O'Donnell sat at the centre of the room with the defendant Admiral Cain stood in the dock to their left. To their right Seth sat at the prosecution. As predicted Cain had chosen to defend herself, a small group of civilians were watching the trail and some officers from Pegasus had been allowed to watch
Seeing no reason to wait Admiral Adama started the proceedings
"We are called here today to assess the conduct of Rear Admiral Helena Cain. She stands charged with murder on multiple counts, piracy on multiple counts, treason against the Colonies and violations of the Caprican Convention. Admiral Cain how do you plead?" he asked the woman who looked at them all defiantly before saying
"Not guilty and I do not recognise the authority of this court" and angry mumbling brought out in the audience and Adama said in response
"You may not recognise the authority of this court but you will be judged by it none to less" and then turned to Seth saying "Commodore please begin"
Seth took a moment to clear his throat before saying "Thank you your honour, this is a court of the rules and laws that bind our people as a society that we are all responsible to uphold and ultimately accountable too. It is my intention to see here today that justice is done and that those laws which prevent us from falling into anarchy are indeed upheld" he said closing his opening statement. Adama turned to Cain who just stared back defiantly before Adama started again
"Very well, we move on to the charges of murder, commodore would you please make your case and display your evidence"
Seth nodded and carried forward transcripts copied from Cain's own logs and interviews with crewmembers placing them on the judge's table for them to read before saying "I present the evidence taken from the Admiral's logs and the words of her own crew regarding her actions during the action against the comm relay shortly after the fall. The transcript clearly show that outnumbered over four to one and with the ship's own defences sabotaged the Executive officer of Pegasus Colonel Belzan recommended to the Admiral that they call a retreat rather than commit their full resources to the destruction of a minor outpost. At his suggestion she ignored it and when called on to order all vipers into action Belzan refused the order so the Admiral rather than lose face, took his own side arm and shot him in the head in front of her own crew before then having Colonel Fisk carry out her previous order"
The judges read the transcripts carefully as Seth continued "This is completely unjustified, the procedure for this circumstance would have been to send the Colonel to the Brig. And his objection was completely valid given that in that battle Pegasus lost 816 crewmembers with 121 injured. In material losses 32 vipers were destroyed and 61 damaged with insufficient parts to repair them all in the name of a tactically insignificant victory"
The Judges sat as they listened to Seth before turning to Cain who said "The Colonel was undermining my authority in a situation where withdrawal would have been negative for the ship's crew" Cain said simply and Seth retorted
"We are not questioning whether you were right to continue the attack or not admiral although in terms of the morale of your crew would consider such heavy losses negative enough. We are questioning your action in murdering Colonel Jurgen Belzan, a man who had served as your executive officer for many years simply because he did not do as you told him. A man who was just doing his job and trying to protect the crew" Cain fell silent as she thought for the first time in a while about her old friend, who had introduced her to his wife and daughters who made her an honorary aunt and how horrible it felt knowing that she had killed perhaps the closest thing to a friend that she had. She looked up at the watching audience and saw for just a moment, Jurgen and his family staring at her till she blinked and they were gone
With Cain's silence they moved on to the charges of piracy and murder in regards of the stripped ships
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Meanwhile Helo in his and Sharon's new quarters was showing images from the Cylon fleet to Sharon who saw the strange ship and told him what it was
"It's called the Resurrection Ship, as we get further and further away from the colonies the range of the resurrection network gets more strained so we built these ship's to extend it"
"So if it was destroyed, the Cylons couldn't resurrect?" Helo asked and Sharon nodded but added
"At least until a new ship is brought in range" leaving Helo's mind spinning with possibilities
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"The accused stands charged with the stripping of civilian vessels and the forced conscription of individuals into the crew of Pegasus as well as the shooting of civilians who would not comply and their families as well as leaving the surviving civilians to perish from either Cylon attack or CO2 build up once the Air scrubbers had been taken" Seth said back at the trial. Cain was still shaken by the earlier point about Jurgen and defended her point
"We needed those supplies to continue our campaign against the Cylons and those recruits have been instrumental in repairing our ship" but Seth continued to tear her argument to pieces
"The war that the Cylons wage on us Admiral is a war of extermination, every day that we stay alive is a victory in its own way. Your strikes have done very little to affect the Cylon infrastructure and those people that you condemned to death on those stripped hulks could have been the beginning of a new colonial civilisation. You could have used your ship to protect them and made a run for deep space, instead you use them to continue a war effort which is ultimately futile" Seth said
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To distract her from what was going on at her mother's trial; Sheba was going through the reports made on the condition of the two new battlestars
The Battlestar Pegasus was fully operational with an air wing of 7 viper squadrons and 30 raptors and a crew of 1700
The Battlestar Artemis was also fully operational with an air wing of 8 viper squadrons and 29 raptors with a crew of 1800
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"And for the final point, the execution of Colonel Frank Callahan and his command crew was worse than Colonel Belzan; they were the only experienced officers in the entire crew of the Artemis. Without them the crew was left completely disorganised and to compound that you force a retired seventy year old man with a weak heart to take over command of the ship with no experienced officers to assist him" Seth said "In the last two engagements with the Cylons they have suffered terrible losses as a result of inexperienced and terrified crew lacking the direction that the experienced officers could provide" Seth said to Cain back at the trial. He was only glad that his own officers had been able to handle the pressure that they had been under
Cain was trying to defend her position but the more she thought about it, the more missed opportunities she saw in the past. She still had to try and make them understand why she had done it all though
"At the time, I was operating blind with no idea of what to do, unable to see any kind of future were I and my crew weren't dead, it was my decision to at least try and avenge the loss of the billions in the colonies. I was under enormous pressure every moment"
Seth was not in a mood to forgive "WE all were admiral, I and Admiral Adama faced trials and pressure ourselves but we sought to protect the sanctity of life, whereas you sought only to seek revenge"
With the last point delivered Adama stood to talk to the gathered crowd "We will retire to discuss our verdict, till then we will have a three hour recess"
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In the infirmary of Galactica, Gina lay restrained to the bed in fear she would harm herself if freed after she had tried to cut herself with a scapula. She was so unaccustomed to being treated with kindness and mercies that it made her wonder if she had died and moved into the kingdom of god. She flinched as the nurse that she had discovered was called Islay came over to offer her a drink of water. She stared at the nurse who offered her the glass before nodding allowing the woman to come closer to pour the smooth refreshing liquid down her throat. She was parched, on Pegasus they had given her an eggcup of water every three days if she was lucky but here they treated her like one of them, a living being.
Islay set the glass down on the table by her bed and went off to find something to eat for Gina. In the glass Gina saw her reflection
'Where did that beautiful and confident woman go?' she asked herself in despair as her bruises and tussled hair were revealed to her 'Why did they do this me? I thought Helena loved me' she thought to herself and tears started flowing down her cheeks then Islay returned without her noticing till Islay put a comforting hand on her shoulder. Gina was about to flinch away till she saw the warmth in Islay's eyes who told her
"We will help Gina; we have a sister of yours on Telmaya you know" Islay smiled at her and Gina flet just a little better allowing Islay to touch her
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Three hours later, the Judges returned with their verdict, Colonel Colchester read for the three of them as the audience, Seth and Cain who waited
"We fine the defendant Helena Cain guilty on all charges" they said and the reaction was immediate, the audience and Seth relieved that justice was to be achieved. Colchester continued "Due to the large and severe nature of the offenses, we must assign the most severe punishment that this court is able to bestow; we sentence you Helena Cain to death by airlock" and Cain's face flew as the impact of what had just been said hit her
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The next day was brutal, the Pegasus threatened to fire on the civilian fleet unless the admiral was spared but Helena convinced them to stand down, not wanting her ship to be destroyed by Adama. She was awaiting her execution when she heard the guard saying as he opened the cell
"Prisoner, you have a visitor" Helena looked up expecting to see Jack Fisk or a member of her crew only to see the last person she had been expecting
Sheba Cain, her daughter
Sheba just stood there wearing a colonel's uniform with a Telmaya patch on the shoulder. Mother and daughter just stared at each other for a moment neither daring to speak but finally Helena
"Sheba" and Sheba could only respond with
"Mother"
"I thought you were dead" Helena said
"I have being trying to work up the nerve to see you for days" Sheba admitting to her own doubts but before anything else could be said Helena reached out and pulled Sheba into a fierce hug the Sheba returned
Now openly crying Helena said "I'm so sorry"
Sheba now crying with her just said back "Me too"
Helena finally admitted to her something that she never had to anyone "I was scared, scared of trying to take care of you all by myself, scared that I would ruin you, hurt you like my mother did me, I did it to protect you from me" and Sheba held her mother tighter
"I missed you so much" Sheba admitted herself as both women cried for what might have been
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The following morning, it was time. Helena Cain in full dress uniform was marched to the airlock by marines. She saw members of her own crew lining the walls as she passed and she kept her cool demeanour till just before the entrance to the launch tube when she saw Sheba standing there with tears in her eyes and Helena gave her as much of a smile as she could muster before with her head held high, she walked into the launch tube and kept staring straight ahead till it was closed. She closed her eyes and willed herself to stay calm, when she opened them again she saw Jurgen Belzan standing in front of her with his family and a little girl that Helena had not seen since she herself was a child, her darling little sister Lucy. The girl who had given her the strength to stand up to their horror of a mother and who had she had entertained with stories that she may up of great heroes and villains. They all smiled at her and Helena smiled back, even as the door opened exposing her to the vacuum that killed her in mere moment as she drifted out into space
Helena smiled
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After the execution of Cain, Thorne and a number of crew from Pegasus (40 in all) were booted out of the colonial military and confined to the Astral Queen for what they had done to Gina. But when Helo took the Intel he had gained from Sharon to Adama who ordered an immediate attack plan, putting Seth Trakiss in charge of the attack.
Seth took a look at the recon photos taken by the Blackbird; the stealth fighter constructed by the crew of Galactica and devised a plan. He went to take the idea to Adama who listened intently
"The key issue is how we stop the resurrection ship from jumping away the first sight the get. So I propose that the stealth star fighters of Ulysses close to point blank range before using their cannon to destroy the FTL drives on the ship. Once they do this" he said demonstrating with the models on the battle map with Adama watching "Telmaya, Rycon and Pegasus jump in and ambush the base ships while Ulysses attacks with her long range nukes we launch all our vipers to the attack"
Adama looked at the plan, it was simple and straight forward and he nodded "You have a go, but are you sure that taking Pegasus is a good idea after what happened?"
Seth nodded "It's essential that crew needs a victory to lift their spirits" Adama nodded remembering the bleak looks on the faces of the crew he had seen since the execution of Cain. He told Trakiss
"I'm promoting all ship CO's to the rank of commander and I'll be assigning Captain Lee Adama to take over as the Artemis XO to take the pressure of Zanuck. We need to get this military into the proper shape"
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Trakiss called the commanders of the attack fleet together and told Colonel Fisk
"Once the Stealth fighters have taken out the FTL on the resurrection ship I want you to blow it away before turning your ship's fire power on this base ship here" he indicated the ship in question on the battle map and Fisk asked
"Can I ask why Pegasus is destroying this thing; a Raptor with a few missiles could do it" thinking they were being treated like rooks but Trakiss told him
"No Fisk, if Pegasus does this you render all Cylons mortal and killable. For the first time we have the opportunity to actually kill some of the bastards, and you get to make it possible" he told Fisk and the older man saw the importance of the job before nodding
"Yes sir"
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Ulysses left first, using its stealth technology to get as close as they could to the target without being detected and launched her stealth fighters. The pilots in complete radio silence sped as fast as they dared towards their target. The sight of the two base ships was intimidating but the sight of the target was weird. It looked like a flying cathedral packed with life sized dolls. They shook off the weird feeling and the moment the FTL drive was in range the let loose with their cannons. The high powered rounds torn right into the fragile ship and the FTL was knocked off line. The fighters immediately pulled back while Ulysses began firing its long-range missiles and the three Battlestars jumped in.
On the Pegasus CIC Fisk addressed his crew "Once we blow away that ship, all Cylons we kill will stay death so we kill them all" and a rousing cheer rose amongst the crew as the main battery of Pegasus with just one volley blew the stricken resurrection ship away and the three capital ships began pounding the Cylon ships while their fighters attacked the swarms of Raiders relishing the feeling of finally killing Cylons properly. The Ulysses slammed a nuke into one base ship before Pegasus finished the job blowing the ship to bits. Rycon and Telmaya attacked the other one together, slamming missiles and shells into it reducing it into a flaming hulk before finally its hull collapsed in a massive fireball
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I was asked to include a list of Military ships so here it is
Military Ship Roll Call =
Battlestar Galactica – Columbia class. Commander – Fleet Admiral William Adama, XO – Colonel Saul Tigh. Flagship of the fleet
Battlestar Telmaya – Mercury class. Commander – Commodore Seth Trakiss, XO – Colonel Sheba Cain
Battlestar Pegasus – Mercury class. Commander – Commander Jack Fisk, XO – Major Barry Gardener
Battlestar Artemis – Mercury class. Commander – Commander Karl Zanuck, XO – Captain Lee Adama
Battlestar Colossus – Columbia class. Commander – Commander Miranda Colchester, XO – Major Samantha Freeman
Battlestar Rycon – Valkyrie class. Commander – Commander Beatrix Ishii, XO – Major Quintus
Battlestar Vulcan – Valkyrie class. Commander – Commander Russell O'Donnell, XO – Lieutenant Colonel Gary Morris
Dreadnaught Achilles – Mars class. Commander- Commander Paula Yates, XO – Major Severin Marino
Long range Missile cruiser Ulysses – Ulysses class. Commander Abby Brant, XO – Major Daryl Yantos